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host: herald, a jacksonville beach, florida. you are on the republican line on with tavis smiley and cornel west. caller: in rectifying this situation, the one thing i did not hear him say is he wants to rebuild the white and black lower class families. i have seen study after study shows that if you want to be poor and make sure your kids are poor, then if you are a female, have a child and go on government welfare. you have to build good families. you have to have a man in the house and the man supporting the family, even if the government helps. you just cannot have a system where you get the money to the woman and she varies the state, and the man is not allowed to stay in the home. -- she marries the state in the man is not allowed to stay in the home. guest: it is a good republican talking point, and i respect it. we have heard that time and time again. we discussed this in our book. we believe in putting families first. we both came from nuclear families. his mother and father in sacramento, calif., he grew up in a nuclea
host: herald, a jacksonville beach, florida. you are on the republican line on with tavis smiley and cornel west. caller: in rectifying this situation, the one thing i did not hear him say is he wants to rebuild the white and black lower class families. i have seen study after study shows that if you want to be poor and make sure your kids are poor, then if you are a female, have a child and go on government welfare. you have to build good families. you have to have a man in the house and the...
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host: what do you do in jacksonville, florida? caller: i am a consultant. i have been watching politics of my life, including my teenage life. i turned into c-span in 1979 and it is just that. host: what kind of consultant? caller: military personnel. host: we appreciate you watching and we appreciate the commercial you just gave us. now let's go back to linda. kirk's ago, missouri. all you have to do is turn the volume down in your tv. you'll you're everything through your telephone. caller: ok. host: just go ahead. caller: linda, please, start talking. -- host: linda, please, start talking. caller: i am a democrat and when i saw mrs. obama speak last night, it touched a lot of women and men when they would see their husbands work hard, even in the corporate world, even in the local jobs, even going to work really hard. i may call miners granddaughter. i can understand my grandpa, he was tired of working and 90 years old and he died. i can remember these hard days. i am 66 year-old. i concede -- can see her crying inside, and amera are barred her husband t
host: what do you do in jacksonville, florida? caller: i am a consultant. i have been watching politics of my life, including my teenage life. i turned into c-span in 1979 and it is just that. host: what kind of consultant? caller: military personnel. host: we appreciate you watching and we appreciate the commercial you just gave us. now let's go back to linda. kirk's ago, missouri. all you have to do is turn the volume down in your tv. you'll you're everything through your telephone. caller:...
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Sep 21, 2012
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fran is on the phone from jacksonville, florida. caller: i would like to comment on the politicians that about doing the hard things, as we saw a moment ago on the television. that keyword, hard things, those are the things that affect regular american people. those hard things don't affect those people at the top. that's what they are pushing for. one of your callers was talking about the president and not coming on television to reassure the american people rather than campaigning. in the virginia focus group, the number one thing that most people said about him was the the characteristic was being cool. they should know our president by now. the fact that he is out campaigning does not mean that he is not addressing what is happening in the middle east. our finding and killing bin laden is evidence of that. host: the focus group that she mentioned, that's available on our website. a gathering of 12th either undecided or leaning towards mitt romney or barack obama voters, which took place in fairfax, virginia, one of the key battl
fran is on the phone from jacksonville, florida. caller: i would like to comment on the politicians that about doing the hard things, as we saw a moment ago on the television. that keyword, hard things, those are the things that affect regular american people. those hard things don't affect those people at the top. that's what they are pushing for. one of your callers was talking about the president and not coming on television to reassure the american people rather than campaigning. in the...
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michael is from the jacksonville, florida. thanks for calling. caller: good morning. i'm calling about the romney comments. it is appalling that the media has blown this out of proportion. what mitt romney said is a fact. 47% of our country is at on entitlements. it does not bother me what he had to say. i agree with him. america needs to wake up. the people who don't comprehend will not understand what he's talked about. host: thanks for calling, michael. he talked about the media blowing this up too much. here is the opinion piece from the "washington times this morning i-- then it's on the opinion page of the washington times,. wes iscalifornia, waiting on the republican line. go ahead. caller: thanks for giving me the opportunity. i recently changed to the republican party. i am really disappointed in my view and in and my former party. the fair share of social justice is no share. when you have a man speaking the truth that is not a gaffe if that's what he really believes. it.st don't get president obama speaking about redistribution and nobody is jumping on that
michael is from the jacksonville, florida. thanks for calling. caller: good morning. i'm calling about the romney comments. it is appalling that the media has blown this out of proportion. what mitt romney said is a fact. 47% of our country is at on entitlements. it does not bother me what he had to say. i agree with him. america needs to wake up. the people who don't comprehend will not understand what he's talked about. host: thanks for calling, michael. he talked about the media blowing this...
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host: jacksonville, north carolina on the republican line. good morning. caller: all of these renewable bills, solar -- they are not functional. we are losing money. solyndra and all of these others, we are subsidizing them and as soon as we give them money, they go broke. you get the idea that we are broke. we are $16 trillion in debt. we would get jobs if we would have the oil pipe line. that is more than 7000 jobs. the fact that the president just eliminated killing in the gulf, that has eliminated thousands of jobs. now we are subsidizing brazil to be drilling in the gulf. this is totally ridiculous. we need leadership. obama is not doing any leadership. he is taking the country down and we are the ones who are paying for it. host: you talked about functionality when it comes to the wind and solar industry. guest: not every company makes it. they are creating tens of thousands of jobs. part of that is because they are building the cars of the future. if you drive around colorado or iowa, there are growing new industries. that is why there is bipartisan
host: jacksonville, north carolina on the republican line. good morning. caller: all of these renewable bills, solar -- they are not functional. we are losing money. solyndra and all of these others, we are subsidizing them and as soon as we give them money, they go broke. you get the idea that we are broke. we are $16 trillion in debt. we would get jobs if we would have the oil pipe line. that is more than 7000 jobs. the fact that the president just eliminated killing in the gulf, that has...
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jacksonville, you are our last this morning. go ahead. caller: i have three things i wanted to say. i have a sister who was in the second hour, in the 70th floor. i also had a brother in the first hour, he was a contractor, going out to get a permit. my brother for got a piece of paper and decided that he would walk back home, because he lived in new york, and at the same time he left the building and walked swiftly towards his home and got about one block away and he heard an airplane, he looked up, he saw it hit the tower. he ran back. when he got that, there were people all over the place. it was no more than 15 minutes. my sister was in the second hour. she was back home one morning. my sister, the floor that she was on, they decided to evacuate. they left and started walking down the stairs and were told by security that it was okay in the building and she refused to go back up. host: thank you for sharing your personal story. thank you for all the phone calls this morning. we need to move on at this point. coming up next, mark begich, senator from alaska, will be -- continue o
jacksonville, you are our last this morning. go ahead. caller: i have three things i wanted to say. i have a sister who was in the second hour, in the 70th floor. i also had a brother in the first hour, he was a contractor, going out to get a permit. my brother for got a piece of paper and decided that he would walk back home, because he lived in new york, and at the same time he left the building and walked swiftly towards his home and got about one block away and he heard an airplane, he...
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host: a viewer in jacksonville, ark.. jack, go ahead. caller: good morning, congressman. you mentioned the constitutionally protected right earlier. do you believe you should be able to purchase firearms without showing id? that is the constitution to protect -- protected aspect under the second amendment. host: required to show i.d. to purchase. caller: yes, fire arms. guest: the second amendment to the constitution gives you the right to bear arms, absolutely. what i am saying is the constitution gives you the direct right to vote. you do not need to purchase your vote. you have a right to vote. there is no in-between on that. host: so that is not a good comparison. guest: no, i do not. we may disagree, but that is what thmakes america a great country. host: you can read more about this on the website. will we be working on this more for next year? does it depend on the outcome of the election? guest: no, i will continue to work on this. we will be back after the election at some point, we will uck, but thee do important thing is we need to show that we are going to pus
host: a viewer in jacksonville, ark.. jack, go ahead. caller: good morning, congressman. you mentioned the constitutionally protected right earlier. do you believe you should be able to purchase firearms without showing id? that is the constitution to protect -- protected aspect under the second amendment. host: required to show i.d. to purchase. caller: yes, fire arms. guest: the second amendment to the constitution gives you the right to bear arms, absolutely. what i am saying is the...